I would really like to see a Habitat approach to rebuilding affordable housing. Residents that are able bodied should be asked to participate with the rebuilding, even if it's simple things like painting and landscaping. People need to feel a sense of responsibility for helping to maintain the property and have a stake and active role in the neighborhoods they live in.
Been said that. They Should've not been able to live in the Projects unless they keep it Clean & almost Crime free. Sm1 in household commits a Crime the whole house getting Kicked out. Every other weekend you hv to help clean the Grounds!!
Well, we need to start teaching life skills, job skills in middle school instead of figuring out ways to create a world where people are totally dependent on the government. It doesn’t work when you put a large group of poor people in one building or one community.
One weeks pay for one months stay! We have a baseline for wages but not accommodation. This makes no sense and simply doesn't work. The average lowest rent in 2022, ranged from $1,200 to $1,500 per month in many places. The monthly income, based on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for a full-time job of 40 hours per week,,amounts to around $1,256.96 per month before taxes. HUD's Definition of Affordable Housing: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines housing as affordable if a household pays no more than 30% of its income on housing costs, including rent or mortgage, utilities, and insurance. This cannot be done in todays rental market. We need to mandate that all new multifamily complexes include a percentage of baseline units (300 Sq Ft) that can ONLY rent for 40 hours net pay at minimum wage. Eligibility of these units would be capped. When the persons income exceeds +X% (determined by local authority) of minimum wage they are expected to move on to a market rate unit. This will eliminate the need to subsidize market rate units and create a viable option for those on fixed incomes as well.
Anytime I hear any company or government officials bring up affordable homes they will not be. They say this to get the funding to only turn around and charge 1000 dallor a mo for a coffin of an apartment or 6 figures plus to own. They not understanding there's people out here that still makes less than 15/hr. Less than 12 hr and less than 10/hr. Get fuqin real!
So true that's me I get so stressed out can't afford a 1bedroom . I've raised my Children's . Their grown now I'm alone living on SSDI & don't know which way to go nor turn . Their talking but whose going to help US ... 55 age & up
I am a 65 year old woman I just moved out of St Paul's Appartments and I get partial payment from social security and I still work. I just moved out of the apartment because they kept going up on the rent. It seems like they are focusing on the low income people than they are focusing on the people that work. I tried to make my rent payment but it kept falling behind and I had to keep going to court. It's not fair for the low income too get vouchers and the working class is over looked.
ITS SAD. CAUSE I LIVE IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA. AN HOLD A FULL TIME JOB WITH A 7 YEAR OLD CHILD. WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. AN CAN NOT GET GET HELP WITH LOW INCOME HOUSING . SO IT LEAVES ME TO RENT A ROOM IN OTHERS HOME . FOR $900 A MONTH. SO HELP FOR LOW INCOME HOUSING FOR ONES DOC READY. BUT STILL. ........ THE WAITING LIST. SMH
I live in Massachusetts and am on SSDI. I have been homeless for 4 years. I was denied emergency housing because when I got an eviction letter I left. They require require you to be court evicted. I thought I was doing the morally right thing to do. Who do I contact in my state to help me. I have an emotional support animal so I can't go to a shelter. I'm really struggling. Who can help me?
Wish you didn't leave. If your rent was paid and you've done no damage, take your day in court. Ppl cheat the kind person because they take it for weakness. Really try to have the eviction removed. Because you left, the judge did not have you removed. Please try to get it off your record. Keep praying, and blessings will come. ❤️
@@thotunewstildont5348 I'd say look into rooms for rent to start. Get on as many waiting lists as possible. Cut spending to minimum to save for a deposit. Many times, having a deposit ready will help you get into better housing. The pet, unfortunately is a difficulty. Ask shelter workers for resources. Sadly, bad pet owners have messed up that option. Find some easy work to do. On SSDI you are allowed to work some. It is very hard to save money just on SSDI, depending on how much you receive. Contact agencies that specialize in work with the disabled. It requires a plan and some struggle but 4 years homeless? Uh time to get busy. If you get help and waste it getting drunk or high? Those are signs of depression. It is a step backwards and this does affect the help you will get. As much as some people want to think. The majority of people do not want to be around someone going backwards, living in bitterness. If any of this sounds familiar? That is where to start. There is room for improvement but if someone is sabotaging their opportunities with unrealistic demands or demand unrealistic privileges? That person is already behind in the game of life. Yes, I am disabled.I understand the struggle that comes from having your abilities taken away from you and trying to figure out a life with limited potential. The key is figuring out what you can do, rather then focusing too much on what you can't.
I am going throw the same thing in Durham NC housing authority said that I owe them money but I don't it's to stop me from living in the neighborhood for people 55 and with disabilities 😢
@@deborahrandolph3192 But you are disabled? Have the deposit money or are able to secure it? Disappointing. I know how difficult it is to get on a list. Most are 62 and older. If I cannot get on the list I am concerned where will I live when I turn 62? I am very close to that age now and permanently disabled.
Yes they allowing for these partnerships to run and manage these new complexes for low to affordable housing however they do credit checks it doesn’t make sense if people who are poor or never had any type of assets how can it be expected for the people that apply for these apartments to have ok credit worthiness when most don’t even have any credit
So I am so sorry 😞 but Im not paying 700,000 for a unit in a building 😢 with section 8 residents! People need training programs on proper etiquette first. Trash throwing loud music coming from units and cars. Weed smoking thru the wall 🙆🏽♀️ simply a miss match for me .
It's not freedom. It's owned. It's rules. It's oppression and depression. It's living with your boss 24/7 and you have the cubicle in the corner. For me, I have a autoimmune disease of my nervous system. The more stress the more pain. I am expected to work p.t, live alone, even throughout covid, I still worked risking my safety to keep a roof over my head and Medicaid. Since Biden I have been eating Roman noodles for every meal so I can afford to eat something. This isn't freedom or even a benefit. It's too control and abuse the system on the top end.
The distinction hasn't been made and applied..There should be affordable housing for low income. There should be affordable housing for middle income..Speaking from my experiences working in public housing and market, 33 years in Metro Atlanta..
I will be 62 soon in October I also in the affordable housing Red and now I am homeless Durham Housing Authority put me out couse I don't pay 248 I was just had to pay 25 dollars a month until the new apartment be ready. They put me out now I am homeless
Great guys, now about Portsmouth, Va. All of that vacant land but limited housing. We have a worker shortage. The weather in Hampton Roads is better than Northern Virginia.
You think every body's is taken care of a 16 year old emancipated looking for own place needs a place to live. Wouldn't also make as much. Not everyone comes from supportive Loving families or knowledgeable or silver spoons. We're in a recession as well. Different people different walks of life.
Exactly. She started mixed- income communities back in 1994, before the Olympics. That's why it's referred to as the "Atlanta Model." They were the first city to completely demolish all of the housing projects and replace them with mixed income properties. The bonus is not warehousing low income tenants in a defined area. It also gives property managers tenants who are paying market rates so that they have the income to upkeep the buildings.
@@n7y8c7 I had the pleasure of working on Northside Dr, John Hope Homes / Castleberry Hill in the transformation stages..We would get tour busses from across the USA..HUD Secretary, Henry Cisneros toured also..It was a history making time..
@@n7y8c7 I had the pleasure of working in the management office during the transformation stages on Northside Dr, John Hope Homes now Castleberry Hill..We would get tour busses from other housing authorities..HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros toured also..Atlanta was the gamechanger, Tech wood Homes was the first federally funded public housing community located in Atlanta..Where it started and was completed..
Why should I pay $1,700+ a month when some baby making machine without any education gets the same thing for free basically? How is that helping me? How does that help them? It doesn’t!
U do no that people on section 8 have to work full time unless disabled right?!! And it isn't paying next to nothing!! I should no. I'm on it . and I pay almost market rate because of my income. Most of us literally only getting a couple hundred off what everyone else pays
They aren't mixing the elite aristocratics of society with the proletariat class. If you're living in a building with Section 8 renters, then chances are you're not too high income to begin with.
🤔Choose which criticism you want to stand on 1. "Who makes 12k a yr" (Guess what they still pay taxes) "Get a better job" 🤔Both statements are in reference to being employed. So, how are they therefore after called Lazy...wouldn't Lazy equal (I'll say not actively seeking)unemployed.
I would really like to see a Habitat approach to rebuilding affordable housing. Residents that are able bodied should be asked to participate with the rebuilding, even if it's simple things like painting and landscaping. People need to feel a sense of responsibility for helping to maintain the property and have a stake and active role in the neighborhoods they live in.
Been said that. They Should've not been able to live in the Projects unless they keep it Clean & almost Crime free. Sm1 in household commits a Crime the whole house getting Kicked out. Every other weekend you hv to help clean the Grounds!!
why only require that of the poorest, make it a universal requirement. Wealthy people trash their own places too. It's a hidden cost to society.
Well, we need to start teaching life skills, job skills in middle school instead of figuring out ways to create a world where people are totally dependent on the government. It doesn’t work when you put a large group of poor people in one building or one community.
One weeks pay for one months stay!
We have a baseline for wages but not accommodation.
This makes no sense and simply doesn't work.
The average lowest rent in 2022, ranged from $1,200 to $1,500 per month in many places.
The monthly income, based on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for a full-time job of 40 hours per week,,amounts to around $1,256.96 per month before taxes.
HUD's Definition of Affordable Housing: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines housing as affordable if a household pays no more than 30% of its income on housing costs, including rent or mortgage, utilities, and insurance.
This cannot be done in todays rental market.
We need to mandate that all new multifamily complexes include a percentage of baseline units (300 Sq Ft) that can ONLY rent for 40 hours net pay at minimum wage.
Eligibility of these units would be capped.
When the persons income exceeds +X% (determined by local authority) of minimum wage they are expected to move on to a market rate unit.
This will eliminate the need to subsidize market rate units and create a viable option for those on fixed incomes as well.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HOUSING IS DOING BUT EVERYONE CANNOT LIVE IN PLACES LIKE THIS.
FACTS! The bad apples will bring that area down so fast! Seniors maybe but not section 8!
But some seniors already on section 8
Anytime I hear any company or government officials bring up affordable homes they will not be. They say this to get the funding to only turn around and charge 1000 dallor a mo for a coffin of an apartment or 6 figures plus to own. They not understanding there's people out here that still makes less than 15/hr. Less than 12 hr and less than 10/hr. Get fuqin real!
With social insecurity The way it is right now we can't afford to get a one-bedroom one bath to save our lives even if we had to save our lives
So true that's me I get so stressed out can't afford a 1bedroom . I've raised my Children's . Their grown now I'm alone living on SSDI & don't know which way to go nor turn . Their talking but whose going to help US ... 55 age & up
@user-wz2cd9oe6k I do understand I am on ssdi too and it hasn't been easy.take care
They have to limit the very low income, sadly, because a lot of them dont take care of the unit and bring crime. Sad but facts.
I am a 65 year old woman I just moved out of St Paul's Appartments and I get partial payment from social security and I still work. I just moved out of the apartment because they kept going up on the rent. It seems like they are focusing on the low income people than they are focusing on the people that work. I tried to make my rent payment but it kept falling behind and I had to keep going to court. It's not fair for the low income too get vouchers and the working class is over looked.
ITS SAD. CAUSE I LIVE IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA. AN HOLD A FULL TIME JOB WITH A 7 YEAR OLD CHILD. WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. AN CAN NOT GET GET HELP WITH LOW INCOME HOUSING . SO IT LEAVES ME TO RENT A ROOM IN OTHERS HOME . FOR $900 A MONTH. SO HELP FOR LOW INCOME HOUSING FOR ONES DOC READY. BUT STILL. ........
THE WAITING LIST. SMH
Government subsidies or voucher holders have ruined it for ppl like you. It’s unfortunate They destroy where they live
Dang that's so sad , PRAYERS
I live in Massachusetts and am on SSDI. I have been homeless for 4 years. I was denied emergency housing because when I got an eviction letter I left. They require require you to be court evicted. I thought I was doing the morally right thing to do. Who do I contact in my state to help me. I have an emotional support animal so I can't go to a shelter. I'm really struggling. Who can help me?
Try a sober house. That type of housing accepts men with SSDI. However idk if most will accept animals. Worth a shot.
Wish you didn't leave. If your rent was paid and you've done no damage, take your day in court. Ppl cheat the kind person because they take it for weakness.
Really try to have the eviction removed. Because you left, the judge did not have you removed. Please try to get it off your record. Keep praying, and blessings will come. ❤️
@@thotunewstildont5348 I'd say look into rooms for rent to start. Get on as many waiting lists as possible. Cut spending to minimum to save for a deposit. Many times, having a deposit ready will help you get into better housing.
The pet, unfortunately is a difficulty. Ask shelter workers for resources. Sadly, bad pet owners have messed up that option. Find some easy work to do. On SSDI you are allowed to work some. It is very hard to save money just on SSDI, depending on how much you receive.
Contact agencies that specialize in work with the disabled. It requires a plan and some struggle but 4 years homeless? Uh time to get busy. If you get help and waste it getting drunk or high? Those are signs of depression. It is a step backwards and this does affect the help you will get.
As much as some people want to think. The majority of people do not want to be around someone going backwards, living in bitterness. If any of this sounds familiar? That is where to start. There is room for improvement but if someone is sabotaging their opportunities with unrealistic demands or demand unrealistic privileges? That person is already behind in the game of life.
Yes, I am disabled.I understand the struggle that comes from having your abilities taken away from you and trying to figure out a life with limited potential. The key is figuring out what you can do, rather then focusing too much on what you can't.
I am going throw the same thing in Durham NC housing authority said that I owe them money but I don't it's to stop me from living in the neighborhood for people 55 and with disabilities 😢
@@deborahrandolph3192 But you are disabled? Have the deposit money or are able to secure it? Disappointing. I know how difficult it is to get on a list. Most are 62 and older. If I cannot get on the list I am concerned where will I live when I turn 62? I am very close to that age now and permanently disabled.
Yes they allowing for these partnerships to run and manage these new complexes for low to affordable housing however they do credit checks it doesn’t make sense if people who are poor or never had any type of assets how can it be expected for the people that apply for these apartments to have ok credit worthiness when most don’t even have any credit
So I am so sorry 😞 but Im not paying 700,000 for a unit in a building 😢 with section 8 residents! People need training programs on proper etiquette first. Trash throwing loud music coming from units and cars. Weed smoking thru the wall 🙆🏽♀️ simply a miss match for me .
That’s even in expensive communities!
They are not the only ones on section 8 elderly and disabled are on it and they don't do any of that.
I agree with you!
@@pursedelightedSome of them do!
@NotfromDetroit I am glad I don't know any the ones I know very nice apts.and very clean.there are bad apples in every group I guess
It's not freedom. It's owned. It's rules. It's oppression and depression. It's living with your boss 24/7 and you have the cubicle in the corner. For me, I have a autoimmune disease of my nervous system. The more stress the more pain. I am expected to work p.t, live alone, even throughout covid, I still worked risking my safety to keep a roof over my head and Medicaid. Since Biden I have been eating Roman noodles for every meal so I can afford to eat something. This isn't freedom or even a benefit. It's too control and abuse the system on the top end.
How bout sterling, Colorado
I would love affordable for who. If somebody can give me a real good answer I would appreciate it
The distinction hasn't been made and applied..There should be affordable housing for low income. There should be affordable housing for middle income..Speaking from my experiences working in public housing and market, 33 years in Metro Atlanta..
I will be 62 soon in October I also in the affordable housing Red and now I am homeless Durham Housing Authority put me out couse I don't pay 248 I was just had to pay 25 dollars a month until the new apartment be ready. They put me out now I am homeless
Great guys, now about Portsmouth, Va. All of that vacant land but limited housing. We have a worker shortage. The weather in Hampton Roads is better than Northern Virginia.
I propose to keep it separate. Pookey and his crew hanging out in the garage throwing trash everywhere…. No thank you.
Facts. As I’ve gotten older. Affordable housing just screams Crime Poor and Babies 👶 🥺
@@NkNk-vg8fc FACTS! I am going through that now with pookey. When I first bought my house it was nice but Katrina hit and pookey moved south.
You think every body's is taken care of a 16 year old emancipated looking for own place needs a place to live. Wouldn't also make as much. Not everyone comes from supportive Loving families or knowledgeable or silver spoons. We're in a recession as well. Different people different walks of life.
We are all in the same boat, some of us have different paddles..🤔
Reach out to, RENEE GLOVER..She transformed the City of Atlanta Housing Authority in 1994..It was a gamechanger..
Exactly. She started mixed- income communities back in 1994, before the Olympics. That's why it's referred to as the "Atlanta Model." They were the first city to completely demolish all of the housing projects and replace them with mixed income properties.
The bonus is not warehousing low income tenants in a defined area. It also gives property managers tenants who are paying market rates so that they have the income to upkeep the buildings.
@@n7y8c7 I had the pleasure of working on Northside Dr, John Hope Homes / Castleberry Hill in the transformation stages..We would get tour busses from across the USA..HUD Secretary, Henry Cisneros toured also..It was a history making time..
@@n7y8c7 I had the pleasure of working in the management office during the transformation stages on Northside Dr, John Hope Homes now Castleberry Hill..We would get tour busses from other housing authorities..HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros toured also..Atlanta was the gamechanger, Tech wood Homes was the first federally funded public housing community located in Atlanta..Where it started and was completed..
15 minutes city wake up to the masses
Why should I pay $1,700+ a month when some baby making machine without any education gets the same thing for free basically? How is that helping me? How does that help them? It doesn’t!
U do no that people on section 8 have to work full time unless disabled right?!! And it isn't paying next to nothing!! I should no. I'm on it . and I pay almost market rate because of my income. Most of us literally only getting a couple hundred off what everyone else pays
@@thetruth5098 Count yourself lucky. Majority of us men receive no assistance.
@@thetruth5098 don’t worry they may have to go on sect 8! Keep on living!
They aren't mixing the elite aristocratics of society with the proletariat class. If you're living in a building with Section 8 renters, then chances are you're not too high income to begin with.
@@TomikaKellyNot true At all…. It’s called Mixed income very few reserved for low income….
Affordable housing is letting scammed list on their website. Be careful just scammed for $400.
Better to pack you in like sardines units lol.
This is amazing news. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
15 minute city
Who makes only $12K a year? Get a real job. These people are just lazy. I don't care to live around them.
Are you saying that disabled and elderly deserve to be homeless. Most.of them get that small amount in income
🤔Choose which criticism you want to stand on
1. "Who makes 12k a yr" (Guess what they still pay taxes) "Get a better job" 🤔Both statements are in reference to being employed. So, how are they therefore after called Lazy...wouldn't Lazy equal (I'll say not actively seeking)unemployed.